-=> Quoting Murray Lesser to Jonathan Markevich <=-

 ML> Excerpted from message dated 10-23-94, Jonathan Markevich to Peter
 ML> Hansen:
 JM>    Are there still some GOTO-lovers?  I thought they all died off!
........................
 ML> My only complaint with REXX is that it doesn't have a real GOTO.
 ML> (SIGNAL is not an equivalent, and you are in big trouble if you use
 ML> SIGNAL indiscriminately thinking that it is.)  However, Mike Cowlishaw
 ML> explained very carefully, in his book, why REXX cannot have a GOTO, so
 ML> we just have to live with it.  But the lack of a real GOTO does lead
 ML> to what would otherwise be unnecessary coding complications, at times.

 ML> --Murray
 ML>  ! Origin: 2" x 4" bbs - a basic board - (914) 271-9407
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    Pardon my novice intrusion. I have "converted" (read, copyied) some
    former Dos batch files containing GOTO's into OS/2 *.CMD form and
    these seem to still function correctly. Did I just (dumb)luck out
    or is there an seudo GOTO in REXX?

                                Regards,

                                    Alfred Dayton

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